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The prettiest coastal villages in Britain

The undoubted highlight of Bamburgh village is that it has a rather impressive 18th-century castle slap bang in the middle of it – not something that many British villages can claim. It also has a dune-fringed beach whose sands wouldn't look out of place in the Mediterranean and is one of the North East's top surf spots. There's are plenty of English tea rooms to take a break in and a newly-renovated museum dedicated to Grace Darling (famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838).